Eastbury Residents' Association

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If you wish the Association to keep you informed by e-mail about matters affecting our area please send us your details by going to the 'Members' page or by clicking here.

Street Lighting at Night

Work has started to switch off many of the street lights in Hertfordshire at night. This is to save energy and reduce Herts CC's electricity bill, paid through our council tax. Some lights will remain on all night, for example where there is significant pedestrian activity, at busier road junctions and where there is a road obstruction such as a roundabout or central island. The conversion work in our area started in the last week of January. The process should take 3-4 weeks. Following conversion it will take 2-3 nights for the new photocells to start switching lights off around midnight and back on around 6am.
For more information visit www.hertsdirect.org/highways.

The Future of Three Rivers

Three Rivers District Council is carrying out a six week consultation from 23 January to 5 March 2012 on two documents which will affect the future planning of our District.

The Site Allocation document identifies sites for housing, employment, education, shopping, leisure and open spaces and proposes minor changes to the Green Belt as well as a parameters plan for the South Oxhey area. Views are also sought on the Development Management Policies document which sets out the planning policies against which all planning applications will be assessed. Consultation events are being held across the District. Click here for details and further information about how to view documents and to respond.

Eastbury Horticultural Society

The 2012 programme for Eastbury Horticultural Society has been published. To see the programme go to Local Organisations page or click here.

Neighbourhood Police Team

PC Simon Craig has recently joined our Neighbourhood Police Team as Ward Constable working alongside PCSOs Gareth Williams and Chris Bignell.This now brings the Moor Park and Eastbury Team, headed by Sgt. Luke Mitchell, up to full strength. PC Simon Craig can be contacted on 01923 472234.

Please note the new non- emergency number for Herts Constabulary is 101. The 0845 3300222 will remain in operation until mid 2012 alongside the new number to ensure no calls are missed.

Northwood Parking Charges: Petition

On 16th November Northwood Residents 'Association presented a petition to London Borough of Hillingdon (LBH) signed by a significant number of retailers in Northwood protesting against the large increase in parking charges for non-HillingdonFirst cardholders. Retailers are concerned that the severe increase in the hourly parking rate for those Northwood residents and others who live outside Hillingdon is affecting their businesses.

The outcome of the hearing was that, although LBH expressed sympathy for the problem, it was reaffirmed that the current differential parking rates will remain unchanged. However LBH has agreed to meet the petitioners to discuss their concerns.

In addition, council officers have been instructed to break down the statistics about HillingdonFirst card use, so that a comparison can be made between the number of HillingdonFirst cardholders and non-residents that are using the machines. This would show if there has been a drop in the number of non-HillingdonFirst cardholders using them and would also show use of the initial free half-hour period which is available to all.

Caddy Liners go on sale

You can now buy corn starch bags to line your kitchen caddy, making the business of storing food waste and transferring it to the brown bin easier and cleaner.

Until now,the composting site has been reluctant to accept corn starch bags, but it has now been agreed that bags of a certain type, issued by the Council, can be used. So please only use these. Of course you can still put your food waste directly into the brown bin, wrap it in newspaper or put it in an old cardboard carton if you prefer.

Please do not use plastic bags, whether they are bio-degradable or not. Council supplied caddy bags can be purchased from various locations across the district at £2.50 for a roll of 52. The nearest suppliers to Eastbury are:-

Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth

Moor Park Post Office, 8 Main Parade, Moor Park

Watford Rural Parish Council, Oxhey Drive, South Oxhey

If in doubt, leave it out

Contamination of waste occurs when non-compostable items are placed in the brown bin. Please take extra care with the waste you put in your brown bin. Visit http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/BrownBins to find out more about what can be recycled at the kerbside.

Bonfires

Some residents like having a bonfire but they can be irritating to neighbours. Smoke prevents your neighbours from enjoying their gardens,opening windows and hanging out washing. If you do light the occasional bonfire try to not chose a damp day when smoke will hang in the air or a very windy day when smoke may be carried over neighbouring properties, lines of washing or when windows may be open.

Be a Good Neighbour!

Noise can upset our neighbourhood harmony , particularly when it comes at the wrong time and interferes with our daily living. Please be 'noise aware'.

Building work at properties must only be carried out during the hours of 8am - 6pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 1pm on Saturdays.

Noisy work such as mowing the lawn or blowing leaves or garden debris should also be done considerately. Please  ensure your gardeners do not carry out this type of work before 9am at the week-end. Some of us like to enjoy an extra hour or two in bed!

 

Scores on the Doors

Scores on the Doors is a national food hygiene rating scheme where you can find the official local authority hygiene ratings for food businesses. The scheme works by awarding each business a star rating following a food hygiene inspection by your local environmental health officer. Businesses with excellent standards of food hygiene will be awarded five stars ranging down to zero stars for those with very poor hygiene standards.
Find out how hygienic and well-managed the food preparation is at any of our local take-aways, clubs, pubs and restaurants. To view ratings in Three Rivers, click here, and for London, click here.

SmartWater

Hertfordshire Constabulary, in partnership with Neighbourhood Watch, is working with SmartWater to keep home burglary low in Three Rivers.

SmartWater is offering Neighbourhood Watch members the product for a one-off total payment of £20 (inclusive of VAT and p&p). Usual price is £60 per annum. For more details and to download an application form see the Neighbourhood Watch page.

More Recycling by TRDC

At last - Three Rivers District Council now collects almost all types of plastics. They are also able to accept food and drinks cartons (commonly called Tetra Paks) in the box with the plastics and cans. It's not possible to list every type of plastic that the Council can take, however the only type of plastic they really cannot take is that which has come into contact with raw meat and clingfilm. The plastics the Council are able to accept include yoghurt pots, plastic carrier bags, ice cream containers, margarine/butter tubs, plastic lids and bottle tops, food and drinks cartons, food and microwave meal trays, shrink wrap (e.g. magazine wrappings but not cling film), plastic storage containers, flower pots, all plastic bottles. Items still need rinsing and squashing, so you can get more in your boxes. Click here for TRDC information leaflet.

Wheelie Bins

Wheelie bins,we either love them or hate them !
Burglars love them because they provide a pretty good idea if you are at home on 'bin'day. If your wheelie bin is still out long after the refuse collection has been and gone,then the chances are,you are out. Nobody has invented the self-return wheelie bin yet so how about becoming a 'Bin Buddy'.

For full details of advice from Neighbourhood Watch click here.